61

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	1st century BC – 1st century – 2nd century
Decades:	30s 40s 50s – 60s – 70s 80s 90s
Years:	58 59 60 – 61 – 62 63 64

61 by topic
Politics
State leaders – Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishment and disestablishment categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Year 61 (LXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Publius Petronius Turpilianus and Lucius Caesennius Paetus become Roman consuls.
The Druidic stronghold of Anglesey in north Wales is attacked and destroyed by Suetonius Paulinus (Tacitus, Annals xiv 30).
Verulamium (St Alban) is sacked and burnt by the Britons. Roman citizens are molested and killed.
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, leads a Celtic revolt in Britain. She is defeated in the Battle of Watling Street by a Roman wedge formation. According to the First Century Roman historian Tacitus, she died by poisoning herself so she would not be enslaved by the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus. Cassius Dio, on the other hand, tells an alternative version of Boudica's death, simply saying that she "fell sick and died."
After defeating the Iceni, the Romans continue the process of Romanizing Britain. They create Roman-style cities, install a Roman administration and build roads.
Galba becomes governor of Hispania Tarraconensis.